Celebrate with us a master storyteller’s unforgettable novel
about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.
Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runnerand A
Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love,
how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through
generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but
brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways
in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another;
and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the
times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their
lives and choices and loves around the globe -- from Kabul
to Paris to San Francisco
to the Greek island
of Tinos – Hosseini’s
tale expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful
with each turning page.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan,
in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his
mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry
relocated the Hosseini family to Paris.
They were ready to return to Kabul
in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and
the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted
political asylum in the United States,
and in September 1980 moved to San
Jose, California. Hosseini
graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University,
where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year he
entered the University of California, San Diego,
School of Medicine, where he earned a medical
degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a
practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.

In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Hosseini began
writing his first novel, The Kite Runner.
Published in 2003, that debut went on to become an international bestseller and
beloved classic, sold in at least seventy countries and spending more than a
hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller
list. In May 2007, his second novel, A
Thousand Splendid Suns, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, remaining in that spot for fifteen
weeks and nearly an entire year on the bestseller list. Together, the two books
have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and more than 38
million copies worldwide.

In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the
United Nations Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR, he later established
The Khaled
Hosseini Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which provides humanitarian
assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
He lives in Northern California.

Books will be available beginning 5/21, for pick up at the
store or shipping to you

Note: Khaled Hosseini will be signing books after the
program for those with a copy of the new book, purchased from us via your
ticket, at the store (save receipt) or at the event. No outside copies, please. You may also have copies of
his previous books signed (and copies of those, too, will be available for
purchase at the event) when your new book is signed; there is no limit to the
number of copies of the new book you may have signed. Snapshots are welcomed,
though we won’t have time for posed photographs.